Modeling Temporal Structure in Classical Conditioning

The Temporal Coding Hypothesis of Miller and colleagues
suggests that animals
integrate related temporal patterns of stimuli into single memory
representations. We formalize this concept using quasi-Bayes
estimation to update the parameters of a constrained hidden Markov
model. This approach allows us to account for some surprising
temporal effects in the second order conditioning experiments of
Miller et al., which other models are
unable to explain.